https://mises.org/ en Tue, 30 Jun 26 05:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/mises-wire/calhouns-answer-abolition-petitions What role does the Constitution play when one state has a different understanding of “American values” than another? Unfortunately, the responses have been inconsistent, depending upon which “values” one wishes to promote. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/calhouns-answer-abolition-petitions https://mises.org/podcasts/speaking-liberty/what-causes-business-cycle Economics’ greatest unsolved mystery, finally explained. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:44:02 CDT Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. https://mises.org/podcasts/speaking-liberty/what-causes-business-cycle https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/state-financial-markets-tells-us-what-investors-really-believe Mainstream economists claim that understanding and observing reality is not really “doing economics.” Instead, they believe that all we need are abstract theories that predict events well. But over time, financial markets must bend to the real world. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:25:13 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/state-financial-markets-tells-us-what-investors-really-believe https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-financial-markets-tells-us-what-investors-really-believe Mainstream economists claim that understanding and observing reality is not really “doing economics.” Instead, they believe that all we need are abstract theories that predict events well. But over time, financial markets must bend to the real world. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-financial-markets-tells-us-what-investors-really-believe https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/july-4-will-you-be-celebrating-founders-or-status-quo On this July 4, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. However, what are people really celebrating, freedom or a militaristic regime? Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:56:55 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/july-4-will-you-be-celebrating-founders-or-status-quo https://mises.org/mises-wire/july-4-will-you-be-celebrating-founders-or-status-quo On this July 4, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. However, what are people really celebrating, freedom or a militaristic regime? Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/july-4-will-you-be-celebrating-founders-or-status-quo https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/politics-power-elites-inflation-and-austrian-answer Mark Thornton argues modern politics is a power struggle run by elites—and that Austrian economics explains both the rigged system and the way out. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:00:05 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/politics-power-elites-inflation-and-austrian-answer https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-taxation-fueled-quiet-envy Forget equity and fairness and reducing so-called wealth gaps. The current “tax-the-rich” movement is driven by an unspoken pathology: envy. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-taxation-fueled-quiet-envy https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-bernie-sanderss-ai-bill-fascistic-and-dangerous Comparing Sanders to fascism may seem unusual, but it should not be forgotten that the main leaders of Italian fascism, including Mussolini, were initially socialists before they became fascists. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Amirhossein Eshtiaghi https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-bernie-sanderss-ai-bill-fascistic-and-dangerous https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/hantavirus-market-versus-government-disease-control Pandemics offer an alleged challenge to libertarians, as some argue that governments should have the power to order quarantines and impose vaccine requirements. It turns out that statism makes things worse—and that free markets offer the best solutions. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:35:52 CDT Carlos Boix https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/hantavirus-market-versus-government-disease-control https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/conclusion The Fed was a government-sanctioned cartel engineered by the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb interests to enable coordinated inflation. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:01:33 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/conclusion https://mises.org/mises-wire/hantavirus-market-versus-government-disease-control Pandemics offer an alleged challenge to libertarians, as some argue that governments should have the power to order quarantines and impose vaccine requirements. It turns out that statism makes things worse—and that free markets offer the best solutions. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Carlos Boix https://mises.org/mises-wire/hantavirus-market-versus-government-disease-control https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/final-phase-coping-democratic-ascendancy With the Democrats ascendant under Wilson, the reformers repackage the Aldrich Plan as the ostensibly decentralized, government-supervised Federal Reserve—with Morgan-allied interests securing control. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:59:33 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/final-phase-coping-democratic-ascendancy https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/panic-1907-and-mobilization-central-bank The Panic of 1907 becomes the catalyst. Rothbard traces the response. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:58:22 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/panic-1907-and-mobilization-central-bank https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/jacob-schiff-ignites-drive-central-bank Around 1906, Jacob Schiff and his relative Paul Warburg rally the American Bankers Association and its leading commercial bankers behind banking reform. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:57:27 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/jacob-schiff-ignites-drive-central-bank https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/conant-monetary-imperialism-and-gold-exchange-standard The theory put into practice: imposing the gold-exchange standard on U.S. dependencies and client states administered by a cadre of economists and academics and tying client currencies to the dollar. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:56:19 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/conant-monetary-imperialism-and-gold-exchange-standard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/charles-conant-surplus-capital-and-economic-imperialism Rothbard shows how Conant’s claim that mature economies must export capital abroad linked banking reform to economic imperialism. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:55:23 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/charles-conant-surplus-capital-and-economic-imperialism https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/gold-standard-act-1900-and-after Treasury secretaries Lyman Gage and Leslie Shaw used government deposits to aid the banks and inch the country toward central banking. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:54:21 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/gold-standard-act-1900-and-after https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/beginnings-reform-movement-indianapolis-monetary-convention The first organized big-business push for banking reform. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:53:21 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/beginnings-reform-movement-indianapolis-monetary-convention https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/unhappiness-national-banking-system Why the nation’s big banks grew dissatisfied with the post–Civil War National Banking System. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:52:21 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/unhappiness-national-banking-system https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/progressive-movement Rothbard frames the 1913 Federal Reserve Act as part of the Progressive drive from laissez-faire toward centralized statism. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:51:21 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/origins-federal-reserve/progressive-movement https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/greenspan-great-opportunist While the pundits are insisting that the late Alan Greenspan was a committed free market adherent, his actions throughout his career spoke differently. In today’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon exposes Greenspan for what he was: an opportunist. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:48:15 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/greenspan-great-opportunist https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/greenspan-great-opportunist While the pundits are insisting that the late Alan Greenspan was a committed free market adherent, his actions throughout his career spoke differently. In today’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon exposes Greenspan for what he was: an opportunist. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/greenspan-great-opportunist https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america Were stronger central government under the Articles of Confederation and a central bank really necessary to win the American Revolution, as conservative nationalists of the era claimed? Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:57:38 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/beware-tariffs-us-china-trade-war-biggest-risk-now The Fed's real mandate is financing government debt and protecting banks. Everything else is propaganda. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:32:19 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/beware-tariffs-us-china-trade-war-biggest-risk-now https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/french-revolution-and-war-vendee Ryan McMaken looks at the little known (in America) secessionist war for self-determination fought by French counterrevolutionaries against the French Jacobins and radicals. The Marxist narrative about this conflict endures, but the separatists were right. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:51:03 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/french-revolution-and-war-vendee https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/little-bighorn-anniversary-remember-custers-crimes The famed "Custer's Last Stand" at the hands of Native Americans defending their villages is a reminder of the brutality of the US war against the Plains Indians. History tells us that the "heroic" George Armstrong Custer was really the "reckless" Custer who died underestimating his foe. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:17:15 CDT James Bovard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/little-bighorn-anniversary-remember-custers-crimes https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america Were stronger central government under the Articles of Confederation and a central bank really necessary to win the American Revolution, as conservative nationalists of the era claimed? Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/death-greenspan-and-rise-mamdanism On this episode of Power & Market, Tho, Connor, and special guest Ryan Turnipseed pay tribute to the Maestro, consider whether Democratic Socialists are part of Greenspan's legacy, and embrace Justice Clarence Thomas as a Rothbard respecter. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:10:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan Turnipseed, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/death-greenspan-and-rise-mamdanism https://mises.org/mises-wire/little-bighorn-anniversary-remember-custers-crimes The famed "Custer's Last Stand" at the hands of Native Americans defending their villages is a reminder of the brutality of the US war against the Plains Indians. History tells us that the "heroic" George Armstrong Custer was really the "reckless" Custer who died underestimating his foe. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT James Bovard https://mises.org/mises-wire/little-bighorn-anniversary-remember-custers-crimes https://mises.org/power-market/feds-favorite-price-inflation-measure-just-increased-again Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/feds-favorite-price-inflation-measure-just-increased-again https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/intellectual-property-versus-unrealized The common belief is that intellectual property rights must be in place, otherwise, entrepreneurs would be reluctant to face uncertain profitability. Well, entrepreneurs already face uncertainty and act, anyway. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:15:11 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/intellectual-property-versus-unrealized https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-property-versus-unrealized The common belief is that intellectual property rights must be in place, otherwise, entrepreneurs would be reluctant to face uncertain profitability. Well, entrepreneurs already face uncertainty and act, anyway. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-property-versus-unrealized https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/democratic-socialists-one-vote-one-time Democratic Socialists are winning election after election and will have a number of representatives in Congress. What will happen to our society as they continue to gain power? The answers are not encouraging. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:21:13 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/democratic-socialists-one-vote-one-time https://mises.org/mises-wire/democratic-socialists-one-vote-one-time Democratic Socialists are winning election after election and will have a number of representatives in Congress. What will happen to our society as they continue to gain power? The answers are not encouraging. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/democratic-socialists-one-vote-one-time https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/greenspan-was-perfect-fed-chair-not-compliment The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s expropriation of the American people. And Alan Greenspan excelled at that. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:14:48 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/greenspan-was-perfect-fed-chair-not-compliment https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-i-look-radical-left-lunatic-vandal James Bovard recently ventured near Washington’s Reflecting Pool and reports on the current madness involving the algae problem and Trump’s efforts to have it cleaned—along with extra security. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT James Bovard https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-i-look-radical-left-lunatic-vandal https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-greek-merchants-and-philosophers-discovered-economics Long before modern economics, the Greek philosophers were laying the groundwork for understanding human cooperation in a social setting, helping to give birth to economic thinking. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:35:13 CDT Marcos Giansante https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-greek-merchants-and-philosophers-discovered-economics https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-greek-merchants-and-philosophers-discovered-economics Long before modern economics, the Greek philosophers were laying the groundwork for understanding human cooperation in a social setting, helping to give birth to economic thinking. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Marcos Giansante https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-greek-merchants-and-philosophers-discovered-economics https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/murray-n-rothbard-toward-science-liberty Social, economic, and political problems are intertwined and complex and require a grand theory to address them. For Rothbard, the unifying theme of social theory was liberty. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:10:22 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/murray-n-rothbard-toward-science-liberty https://mises.org/mises-wire/greenspan-was-perfect-fed-chair-not-compliment The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s expropriation of the American people. And Alan Greenspan excelled at that. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/greenspan-was-perfect-fed-chair-not-compliment https://mises.org/mises-daily/greenspans-empty-talk To help mark the passing of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, we run this 2001 piece from Dr. Joseph Salerno, who understood the Greenspan fraud long before "The Maestro" tanked the US economy by setting off the Housing Bubble. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/mises-daily/greenspans-empty-talk https://mises.org/notes-margin/factory-job-cuts-june-near-worst-2008-financial-crisis-and-covid-levels Manufacturers have indicated job cuts for three of the past four months as they seek to reduce head count over costs and demand concerns. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/factory-job-cuts-june-near-worst-2008-financial-crisis-and-covid-levels https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-choice-problem-ai-rights As AI develops, some people are getting the wrong idea and want to assign moral rights to chatbots and other AI products. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jimmy Alfonso Licon https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-choice-problem-ai-rights https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-bond-yields-are-highest-40-years Tokyo also wants more spending, and it will be hard to keep control of yields while further increasing Japanese deficits. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-bond-yields-are-highest-40-years https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:31:13 CDT Vincent Cook https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/medieval-constitution-liberty Ryan McMaken reviews a new book on the political institutions of the Middle Ages, 'The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West.' Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:30:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/medieval-constitution-liberty https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-attempt-end-iran-war-infuriates-uniparty Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-attempt-end-iran-war-infuriates-uniparty https://mises.org/notes-margin/napolitano-republic-or-empire The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/napolitano-republic-or-empire https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism Modern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is time to set the record straight. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:42:57 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism https://mises.org/notes-margin/iran-war-dismantling-american-empire "The war of aggression against Iran was ' a bridge too far' for the U.S. empire." Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/iran-war-dismantling-american-empire https://mises.org/power-market/remembering-philip-g-duffy-1935-2026 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:00 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/power-market/remembering-philip-g-duffy-1935-2026 https://mises.org/notes-margin/what-would-happen-if-us-actually-cut-military-aid-israel Its ability to wage war and occupy more territory in Lebanon — and for how long — certainly comes into question. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:03:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/what-would-happen-if-us-actually-cut-military-aid-israel https://mises.org/mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism Modern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is time to set the record straight. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism https://mises.org/notes-margin/oracle-laid-21000-employees-over-past-year Oracle cut thousands of jobs in order to have more readily available cash it can use for its AI data center buildouts. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/oracle-laid-21000-employees-over-past-year https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/greenspans-empty-talk On the day Greenspan died, this 2001 essay by Joseph T. Salerno deserves a second life. It documented what the mainstream refused to see. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:55:05 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/greenspans-empty-talk https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/alan-greenspan-dies-100 Greenspan served as an especially important cog in this machine by increasing the Fed’s prerogatives within the global economy. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:12:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/alan-greenspan-dies-100 https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sixth-republic As Ryan McMaken recently pointed out, the original constitutional republic created in 1787 no longer exists. Joseph Solis-Mullen asked if the US is now in its Sixth Republic. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:48:38 CDT Joseph Solis-Mullen https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sixth-republic https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic As Ryan McMaken recently pointed out, the original constitutional republic created in 1787 no longer exists. Joseph Solis-Mullen asked if the US is now in its Sixth Republic. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Joseph Solis-Mullen https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats Progressive elites insist that we “trust our government” when they are in control, but why should we? In fact, we should no more trust government than Charlie Brown should have trusted Lucy to hold the football. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:28:13 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats https://mises.org/mises-wire/magic-money-velocity The velocity of money doesn’t have a life of its own. It is not an independent entity and, hence, it can’t cause anything. Contrary to popular thinking, money does not circulate. Money always belongs to somebody. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/magic-money-velocity https://mises.org/podcasts/loot-and-lobby/feds-inflation-problem Mises Editor-in-Chief Ryan McMaken explains how the new Fed chairman faces a political problem with rising prices and the fact the Fed keeps fueling the inflation fire. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:26:16 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/loot-and-lobby/feds-inflation-problem https://mises.org/power-market/alan-greenspan-dies-100 Greenspan served as an especially important cog in this machine by increasing the Fed’s prerogatives within the global economy. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/alan-greenspan-dies-100 https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats Progressive elites insist that we “trust our government” when they are in control, but why should we? In fact, we should no more trust government than Charlie Brown should have trusted Lucy to hold the football. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/feds-new-face-same-old-game Kevin Warsh may talk tough, but Mark Thornton argues the Fed’s real mandate hasn’t changed: finance Washington, protect Wall Street, and let inflation grind down everyone else. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/feds-new-face-same-old-game https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Vincent Cook https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-stable-systems-fail-illusion-institutional-control Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:30:02 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-stable-systems-fail-illusion-institutional-control https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/institutional-closure-why-managed-directivism-breeds-its-own-collapse As technology advances, progressives believe that this time, all of their social engineering and attempts to establish socialism will finally come to fruition. They are in for a rude surprise. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:00:02 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/institutional-closure-why-managed-directivism-breeds-its-own-collapse https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/harvard-economist-tests-austrian-capital-theory Bob sits down with Harvard Economics Professor Pol Antras to discuss his new paper applying Böhm-Bawerk's average period of production to international trade. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:31:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy, Pol Antràs https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/harvard-economist-tests-austrian-capital-theory https://mises.org/mises-wire/ruling-class-wants-you-think-central-planning-inevitable What elites call “historical inevitability” is merely a bureaucratic narrative meant to paralyze action and shield power from its own failures. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/mises-wire/ruling-class-wants-you-think-central-planning-inevitable https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/marxism-and-manipulation-man The question is not plan or no plan. Everyone plans. The question is whose plan—and what happens to yours when it conflicts with the planner's. Mises traces the path from Marx to Comte to the social engineers, and shows why the destination is always the same. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:16:03 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/marxism-and-manipulation-man https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation The president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion? Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:35:56 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/calhoun-constitutional-government In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews John C. Calhoun’s A Disquisition on Government, published in 1850. Like Murray Rothbard before him, Dr. Gordon finds plenty to like in this book. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/calhoun-constitutional-government https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america While China’s economy has boomed, many people wrongly associate that success with the Chinese government’s industrial policies. Intervention has created many problems there—just as it has done elsewhere. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:10:26 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This reality became concrete in the Newburgh conspiracy in 1783. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:07:13 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies https://mises.org/power-market/what-firm-anyway The "theory of the firm" doesn't have a consistent answer. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/power-market/what-firm-anyway https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This reality became concrete in the Newburgh conspiracy in 1783. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior While Graham Platner has become controversial because of his reckless past and violent behavior, the real objection to his being elected a US Senator should be to his reckless socialist proposals that would have disastrous consequences. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:16:46 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/warsh-era-begins On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the first FOMC meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. Out? Forward Guidance. In? Task forces! What should we take away from Warsh's first time addressing the financial press, and will his tenure be an improvement from the past, or present new dangers to the public? Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:10:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/warsh-era-begins https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/middle-ages-enlightenment-and-propaganda Names for historical periods like "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" did not descend to us out of the heavens. Historians and propagandists of centuries past created these names, often for political purposes. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:01:09 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/middle-ages-enlightenment-and-propaganda https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/bond-market-sell-welcome-titanic-effect Because government monetary authorities have been interfering with interest rates for decades, investors have no more confidence in the bond markets, as they expect more interference and more unpredictability. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:51:10 CDT Thorsten Polleit https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/bond-market-sell-welcome-titanic-effect https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fed-holds-interest-rate-steady-and-warsh-buys-time-new-task-force-scheme Once we look beyond a small shift in rhetoric and emphasis, there is, so far, no reason to believe that the Fed is headed toward anything other than business as usual. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:22:22 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fed-holds-interest-rate-steady-and-warsh-buys-time-new-task-force-scheme https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/real-wages-fell-second-month-price-inflation-surged Sure, the earnings average was up year over year, but prices increased more than earnings did. In fact, price inflation hit a 38-month high in May. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:32:11 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/real-wages-fell-second-month-price-inflation-surged https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-3-no-3-2026 In this issue of The Misesian, we continue our Year of Rothbard with a new essay from Joseph Salerno on what made Rothbard’s work in Austrian economics so notable. Rothbard took the inimitable work of Mises, as set down in his groundbreaking treatise Human Action, and expanded it further. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-3-no-3-2026 https://mises.org/mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america While China’s economy has boomed, many people wrongly associate that success with the Chinese government’s industrial policies. Intervention has created many problems there—just as it has done elsewhere. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:00:00 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america https://mises.org/mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior While Graham Platner has become controversial because of his reckless past and violent behavior, the real objection to his being elected a US Senator should be to his reckless socialist proposals that would have disastrous consequences. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior https://mises.org/mises-wire/middle-ages-enlightenment-and-propaganda Names for historical periods like "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" did not descend to us out of the heavens. Historians and propagandists of centuries past created these names, often for political purposes. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/middle-ages-enlightenment-and-propaganda https://mises.org/power-market/multiple-homesteading-theory-and-metaphysics-ideas-and-information Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:00:00 CDT Andrea Togni https://mises.org/power-market/multiple-homesteading-theory-and-metaphysics-ideas-and-information https://mises.org/power-market/real-fiscal-culprit-spending-not-taxes Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:00:00 CDT Murray Sabrin https://mises.org/power-market/real-fiscal-culprit-spending-not-taxes https://mises.org/notes-margin/gop-mutiny-against-trump-pro-israel-warmongers-mad-trump President Trump's Iran deal has opened an explosive second front in MAGA's civil war, waged by hawkish allies who view U.S. concessions as an existential betrayal of Israel. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/gop-mutiny-against-trump-pro-israel-warmongers-mad-trump https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/musk-trillionaire-panic-distraction Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire has triggered a familiar round of progressive outrage. But the imprecise focus on wealth distribution obscures the real issue: how much of modern wealth is acquired through politics rather than production. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:40:01 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/musk-trillionaire-panic-distraction https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation The president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion? Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation https://mises.org/power-market/fed-holds-interest-rate-steady-and-warsh-buys-time-new-task-force-scheme Once we look beyond a small shift in rhetoric and emphasis, there is, so far, no reason to believe that the Fed is headed toward anything other than business as usual. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/fed-holds-interest-rate-steady-and-warsh-buys-time-new-task-force-scheme https://mises.org/misesian/sledgehammer-attack-war Reading this book confirms Charles Tansill’s emendation of a familiar saying: “The paths of military glory lead but to the grave.” When one considers the horrors of war for the combatants, Rothbard’s argument that the costs of war are virtually never worth paying is strengthened. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/misesian/sledgehammer-attack-war https://mises.org/mises-wire/bond-market-sell-welcome-titanic-effect Because government monetary authorities have been interfering with interest rates for decades, investors have no more confidence in the bond markets, as they expect more interference and more unpredictability. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT Thorsten Polleit https://mises.org/mises-wire/bond-market-sell-welcome-titanic-effect https://mises.org/misesian/murray-n-rothbard-toward-science-liberty Murray N. Rothbard was a system builder in the mode of Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and F. A. Hayek. Social, economic, and political problems are intertwined and complex and require a grand theory to address them. For Rothbard, the unifying theme of social theory was liberty. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/misesian/murray-n-rothbard-toward-science-liberty https://mises.org/misesian/how-state-makes-wildfires-bigger-and-deadlier Humans have a tremendous amount of agency in how dangerous natural disasters end up being. Unfortunately, most politicians and government officials have become a major part of the problem. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/misesian/how-state-makes-wildfires-bigger-and-deadlier https://mises.org/misesian/californias-decline-warning-america For much of its history, California stood out, not only as a land of remarkable natural beauty and extensive natural resources, but as a place with institutions that fueled extraordinary wealth creation. What happened? Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/misesian/californias-decline-warning-america https://mises.org/misesian/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 CDT Chris Calton https://mises.org/misesian/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis